Alexander Stepanov

Alexander Stepanov was a Lieutenant Commander of the Ukrainian Navy during the 2014 Crimean Crisis. On 7 March 2014, he gave an interview to Vice News, telling them that the Russian Black Sea fleet prepared a special operation with seven vessels and scuttled a decommissioned ship called Ochakov in the middle of Donuzlav Bay, trapping the Ukrainian fleet in the port of Sevastopol.